ROSEDALE WATER: Inspirational stories
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On the banks of Rosedale Water where the blooming flowers smiled, <br>
Lived a pure and lovely daughter a rich skeptic's only child. <br>
A large meeting was progressing near her father's flowery grove, <br>
Where the sinners were professing all the bless of Christian love.<br> <br>
Father let me go show the Bible to this poor and ignorant clan, <br>
That it's nothing but a libel on the character of man. <br>
Go my daughter you are able to destroy their religious theme. <br>
Go and prove their book a fable and their doctoring but a dream. <br><br>
Dressed in all her pride and glory, s he went forth to join the throng. <br>
Where she heard the gospel story both in sermon and in song. <br>
Soon the thrill of deep conviction seized upon her guilty soul, <br>
Filled her heart with affliction, that her mind could not control. <br><br>
Then she arose, she without falter, and her sins began to tell. <br>
She went forth unto the altar where in humble prayer she fell. <br>
Casting all her prayers on heaven, all her prayers went to the throne, <br>
Till her sins were all forgiven, and the Savior was her own. <br><br>
Then she hastened to her father to inform him of God's love <br>
And to tell her aged mother of a better place above. <br>
Oh my daughter your behavior seals your doom without delay. <br>
You must either yield your savior or your father's house today. <br><br>
Oh dear father I will love you, and will be your willing slave, <br>
But I cannot yield my savior; no I'd rather see my grave. <br>
Here's your likely clothes and purses. Take them and at once depart. <br>
For your prayers seam more like curses to my wounded broken heart. <br><br>
Oh dear father I will love you though you drive me from your door. <br>
I've a dearer friend than mother, who will keep me ever more. <br>
Then be gone from me forever, and I'll see your face no more. <br>
All your kindred ties you sever when you leave your father's door. <br><br>
Oh dear Mary come and listen to this lovely voice I hear. <br>
Oh come quickly in my system there's a weight I cannot bear. <br>
Then the wife came to the veranda, and she heard the notes abroad. <br>
Oh dear husband that's Amanda in sweet conference with her God. <br><br>
Up the mountain dark and lonely, guided by her heavenly song, <br>
Clasp his darling to his bosom, oh my child forgive my wrong. <br>
Oh come home and save your father 'tis your prayers that let me live. <br>
Come my child embrace your mother and our wretched hearts forgive. <br><br>
Then they all were reunited, went rejoicing on their way, <br>
To a home high up in glory in the reams of endless day.
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